Ododo’s inauguration temporary in struggle to liberate Kogi — SDP’s Ajaka

The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in November’s disputed government elections in Kogi State, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, has urged the people of the state not to be disillusioned by the swearing-in of the APC candidate, Ahmed Usman Ododo, as governor.

Ajaka, in a statement by the Party’s Campaign Director of Communications, Honourable Faruk Adejoh-Audu, which was made available to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday, said that the enthronement of Ododo was just a temporary distraction in the struggle to liberate the people and ensure democracy prevails in the state.

He said despair was not an option for Kogites at the moment when even the impostors were jittery that their heist had an impending expiration date.

According to him, “They have engaged in recriminations and allegations and counter allegations of treachery and disloyalty against senior members of the junta and leaders of their own party.

“They have unleashed thugs to physically attack Senators and federal legislators in the hallowed confines of the State’s Government House.

“They have unleashed all manners of subterfuge, including violent attacks against statutory umpires and adjudicators of the democratic process.

“These can only be the behaviours of electoral bandits. No one who legitimately won a prize will depress into nervous and aggressive conduct to preserve it.”

The SDP candidate, who is challenging the results of the election at the Governorship Elections Tribunal, urged Kogites to avail themselves of the time-tested truism that no matter the fast strides of evil and falsehood, truth and justice, though slow and sluggish, will eventually overtake and prevail.

He charged Kogites to remain hopeful and peaceful while the party fights to retrieve their mandate from those who snatched it during the elections.

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